01.
Castellorizon
02.
On An Island
03.
The Blue
04.
Red Sky at Night
05. This Heaven
06.
Then I Close My Eyes
07.
Take a Breath
08.
Smile
09.
A Pocketful of Stones
10.
Where We Start
11.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5
12.
Whots .. Uh The Deal
13.
Wearing The Inside Out
14. Fat Old Sun
15.
Speak To Me
16.
Breathe
17.
Time
18.
Breathe Reprise
19.
High Hopes
20. Echoes
21.
Wish You Were Here
22.
Comfortably Numb
Dave Gilmour mesmerizes
Toronto fans.
10.04.2006 By
BILL HARRIS - Toronto Sun: David Gilmour
paused and asked, "What's that noise?" It turns out
some of the haze from Gilmour's stage show at Massey Hall last night
temporarily set off a fire alarm. "Or is it a fog alarm?"
Gilmour wondered.
Regardless, the brief fire alarm was the only unwanted sound on a
glorious evening of music.
If anything should have set off alarms, it was Gilmour's virtuoso
guitar-playing. It filled every inch of air space at Massey Hall,
exploding every atom and busting every molecule.
Gilmour, who long ago attained rock-royalty status as one of the
prodigies behind Pink Floyd, doesn't come around these parts too
often. He hadn't played in Toronto since 1994 and hadn't played the
snug confines of Massey Hall since 1984.
So if you were lucky enough to be at the soldout show last night,
you already know you witnessed something very special. Gilmour and
his six-member band -- which included popular Pink Floyd keyboardist
Richard Wright and ex-Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera -- played
for three full hours, with nary a dull moment.
Gilmour is 60 years old now, and when he first walked onto the stage
he looked like any unidentified labourer who could be raking leaves
in your backyard. Balding, with a slight paunch, and wearing a black
T-shirt that was stretched at the neck and nondescript black
trousers, if you didn't recognize his face you would have had no
idea what he was about to unleash.
Then he hit the first note on his guitar and it all made sense. This
is not your average 60-year-old.
Gilmour is touring in support of his recently released, top-selling
solo CD, On An Island, which he played last night in its entirety to
start the proceedings. It's an okay record, albeit laid-back to the extreme in places. But
it's a great compliment to the prowess of Gilmour and his band to
say that last night On An Island was considerably more impressive
and effective live than it is on CD.
Fans who were, well, somewhat chemically altered and were at Massey
primarily to hear the old Pink Floyd stuff still managed to sit
transfixed through the On An Island segment. That's really saying
something.
After a brief intermission, Gilmour came back and performed some of
the more well-known Pink Floyd fare. Among the highlights were Shine
On You Crazy Diamond, Fat Old Sun, Echoes and the two encore numbers,
Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb.
Gilmour has said he appreciates being on tour without all the
technical luggage that is required for a Pink Floyd trip. But while
the light show last night may have been rudimentary by Pink Floyd
standards, it was spectacular nonetheless, particularly by Massey
Hall standards.
Pink Floyd's reunion for the Live 8 extravaganza last summer -- most
significantly, it was a reunion of former enemies Gilmour and Roger
Waters -- has prompted renewed interest in Pink Floyd collectively,
and Gilmour personally. There are no other Pink Floyd projects in
the offing, however.
Gilmour kicked off the five-city, 10-concert North American segment
of his tour with two shows in New York last week. He will play here
again tonight before heading to Chicago (two shows), Oakland (two
shows) and Los Angeles (two shows).
In late may, Gilmour will be at the Royal Albert Hall in London,
England for three concerts, and those shows will provide sound and
footage for a future DVD release. "There will be work to sort of keep me a little bit busy,
making sure things are going right with the DVD and supervising the
editing," Gilmour said in a recent interview with The
Toronto Sun. "But other than that, I haven't got any plans,
to be honest, beyond the end of this tour."
Well ... if you're not dong anything, David, you always could come
back to Toronto and play about 10 more shows.
©
Foto: Joe O'Connal, SUN
David Gilmour in Toronto.
10.04.2006: Die "Massey
Hall" in Toronto sieht fantastisch aus. Guy Pratt
schrieb im Blog
(Posted April 10, 2006 09:00 AM):
Well we thought it was our best
yet... xx Guy
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